ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with a positive proposal on how to deal with the skeptic’s appeal, along with some objections and replies. Much of traditional epistemology would hence remain in place, and much of the skeptic’s attack would remain unmet, for these may be cast in terms of justification, let knowledge fall where it ‘may. Even though the total skeptic lacks any reasonable basis for his skepticism, he may retain a certain justification for his attitude, one that derives from the justification he has for adopting it at the moment of adoption, even if he does lose that particular basis with the adoption of total skepticism. In order to reasonably decide and carry out his intellectual suicide, the skeptic at that moment has need of some rational basis. The vital incoherence that is one’s inevitable lot as a human skeptic gives only a prima facie reason against retaining one’s skepticism.
